Comments on: Flex Tip 2: MXML Script-tag content is not HTML JavaScript

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:14:54 +0000

Hi Tushar, I have not looked into it yet but I guess it’s the ‘prototype’ thing. In ActionScript 2.0 (and Flex is ActionScript 2.0) methods are not added using the prototype chain, you can now just create a clean Lexer class and define the method in your class file as a function.

Lexer.as:
class Lexer {
function Lexer(){
}

function Next(){
}
}

By: Tushar

Tushar — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:33:40 +0000

Hi Waldo,

I am getting the same error, ‘…not permitted in class definition’, when I use following function definition:

Lexer.prototype.Next = function() {
//do something
}

Thanks to your post, now I know that it is due to Flex compier making a single application class. However I do not know what can be the problem behind above function. Please help.

Tushar

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:03:59 +0000

Hi Sven, glad to hear you find it usefull )

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:54:55 +0000

No need to worry Sander, you were not the only one that gave me the idea to blog about this. I think we all once have made this mistake and yes, so did I

By: Sander Prins

Sander Prins — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:17:26 +0000

Nice to see that this is a common mistake to make, thanx for helping me out earlier on this one The solution is very simple, but until you see what’s going on, these are the sort of things that really get your blood boiling…

By: Marco Casario

Marco Casario — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 03:13:40 +0000

Hi Waldo,
i think that another big mistake that flash developers are trying to achieve is to not think Flex event based model and the different usage of methods defined inside their AS classes..
Read the flex docs is a must for every flash or javascript developer …
thanks,

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:48:18 +0000

Hi Sven, glad to hear you find it usefull )

By: Sven Claar

Sven Claar — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:33:29 +0000

Thanks for this explanation at the right time!
This question is one of my favourites

Cheers,
Sven